Salina has the best Ace Hardware in the world.
I used to live a couple blocks north of that Ace store. Such a crap part of town. We had drug dealer neighbors across the street (special police task force rammed down their door in the middle of the day to arrest them), the most white trash family ever next door (ended up abandoning their house one day and a week later some meth heads broke in and stripped all the copper out of the place) and a registered sex offender next to the drug dealers (he was actually a pretty entertaining neighbor, he was a batshit crazy senile dude).
Lots of other weird/sketchy stuff happened while I was living there. It was fun, but locking your doors and owning a gun is highly recommended for living in that part of town.
that sounds terrible, shacks. ms tobias' dad owns a duplex in that neighborhood and just a week or so ago both of the outside A/C units were stolen - just poof, gone, hope you guys didn't want A/C.
I had a blast living there because I was sharing a house with three of my best friends and had a very low-stress/responsibility lifestyle. I had to take a year off school to be eligible for in-state tuition before I transferred to Kansas State, so I was just working an easy job and doing a lot of drinking with my bros and watching sports and playing video games. But yeah, I have a bunch of stories from that neighborhood.
We watched several people get pulled over for DUIs right in front of our house. I don't even know how you get a DUI in a residential area but I guess it happens. Another time a group of these black dudes were hanging out on our porch and
at like 3 AM. My roommate's dog freaked out and woke us all up. Roommate grabbed his M4, opened the front door, pointed the M4 at them and told them to eff off. Turns out they were looking for the drug dealer house, but there had been a lot of break-ins recently so we weren't taking any chances.
